Checking Things Out

[Robert D]

I'm just trying out the new goodies and seeing how they work. What do the rest of us think?

[SwampWoman]

It is 42 here and that's plenty cold enough for me.

Looks like ol' n2l gots another good young football player to watch:

She was known as the Iron Lady and now her teenage grandson is a rising star of gridiron. Michael Thatcher is continuing to foster Baroness Thatcher's special relationship with the U.S. - by helping his high school American football team into the Texas state finals.

The 18-year-old took a brilliant diving catch from a looping 48-yard pass in front of 10,000 fans last week.

The dramatic moment was broadcast live on TV and one excited commentator exclaimed: "Wow! Can the guy run, can he catch, can he do everything?"

Margaret Thatcher, then Prime Minister, announced Michael's birth in 1989 by declaring outside 10 Downing Street: "We have become a grandmother."

The son of Sir Mark Thatcher and Diane Burgdorf, the Texan-born daughter of a wealthy U.S. car dealer, he spent most of his childhood in South Africa where he enjoyed cricket and hockey.

He started playing American football - which is nicknamed gridiron - three years ago when he moved to Dallas with his mother after his father was charged in South Africa with supporting a bungled coup in Equatorial Guinea.

[Robert D]

Cricket? I've played with crickets. Good bait too. 29 here right now.

[SwampWoman]

Aaaack! I've just checked my Outlook Express E-mail address for the first time in a couple of months, and it is stuffed FULL of mail from GCP from whenever anybody said anything on a thread that I had commented on. I haven't even gotten to December yet.

[Robert D]

I try to remember to turn those off after a coupla days. It never works......